[Probably not such a] Naughty Boy, Sam Smith - La la la (Lyrics / Lyric Video / Letra) #songlyricsunday

7clouds videos are awesome - along with Rachel Reyes - they are my first choice for videos which emphasise lyricism.



and here come the words [thought NOT the style!] for my choice of #songlyricsunday for 5 January 2020:

[Intro] Na na, la la la la la na na na na na La la na na, la la la la la na na na na na La la na na, la la la la la na na na na na La la na na, la la la la la na na na na na (Tu meri mauja hain) [Verse 1] Hush, don't speak When you spit your venom, keep it shut I hate it When you hiss and preach About your new messiah cause your theories catch fire [Bridge] I can't find your silver lining I don't mean to judge But when you read your speech, it's tiring Enough is enough [Hook] I'm covering my ears like a kid When your words mean nothing, I go la la la I'm turning up the volume when you speak Cause if my heart can't stop it, I'll find a way to block it, I go Na na, la la la la la na na na na na La la na na, la la la la la na na na na na (I found a way to block it, I go) La la na na, la la la la la na na na na na La la na na, la la la la la na na na na na [Verse 2] If our love is running out of time I won't count the hours, rather be a coward When our words collide I'm gonna drown you out before I lose my mind [Bridge] I can't find your silver lining I don't mean to judge But when you read your speech, it's tiring Enough is enough [Hook] I'm covering my ears like a kid When your words mean nothing, I go la la la I'm turning up the volume when you speak Cause if my heart can't stop it I'll find a way to block it, I go Na na, la la la la la na na na na na La la na na, la la la la la na na na na na (I found a way to block it, I go) La la na na , la la la la la na na na na na La la na na, la la la la la na na na na na (I found a way to block it, oh) Na na, la la la la la na na na na na La la na na, la la la la la na na na na na (I found a way to block it, I go) La la na na, la la la la la na na na na na La la na na, la la la la la na na na na na (Tu meri mauja hain) I'm covering my ears like a kid When your words mean nothing, I go la la la I'm turning up the volume when you speak Cause if my heart can't stop it I find a way to block it, I go I'm covering my ears like a kid When your words mean nothing, I go la la la I'm turning up the volume when you speak (when you speak) Cause if my heart can't stop it I find a way to block it, I go Na na, la la la la la na na na na na La la na na, la la la la la na na na na na La la na na, la la la la la na na na na na La la na na, la la la la la na na na na na (Tu meri mauja hain)

And then I realise there's a reason that YouTube does that when it comes to lyrics - or the 7clouds people did what they did.



When I was a little girl I discovered author Dorothy Edwards and illustrator Shirley Hughes for the first time in a simple novel / anecdote format - the series My naughty little sister.



It was one of my first conscious trips to a beach house; subject to a friend from the civil service.



So in the best traditions, or perhaps defiant/oblivious of these same traditions, I wrecked the entertainment room with Trivial Pursuit cards all over the floor.



The outdoor landscape of that beach house though! It had a big tree at the back. I was trying to trust trees and treehouses again after I had a nasty splinter at home walking on the top of the house [my treehouse had two floors] and it was on my foot. I remember going on the porch to get the splinter out with a needle.



Some three weeks before [12 December 1990] the wonders of the video cassette recorder were revealed to me and one of my very first picks was Pippi Longstocking which was a highly musical version and vivid. I had read the Astrid Lindgren books first in the library especially Pippi in the South Sea Islands with my grandparents so I knew the Ville Villa Kuella.



And Scrubbing Day was incredible - so was Running Away and the whole The First Noël feeling when Pippi and friends came to the orphanage. I loved the Head Girl - the first I recognised as Head Girl. I had not even read Blyton school stories yet in January 1991 - that pleasure was to be some eight months away with Elizabeth Allen and The naughtiest girl in the school.



I too had been considered - one of - the naughtiest girls in my school. I think of Hermoine Granger and that scene in the film of The Philosopher's / Sorcerer's Stone.

That witch really needs to sort out her priorities! - Ron Weasley - Harry and Hermoine's friend

One of the naughty things I did was blow on another student's whistle with the residue of a frozen ice. I did not quite have the mens rea involved [guilty mind in Latin] because I wanted to know how Melisande's whistle worked and if it had nuts in it like the Physical Education teacher's whistle did. The Phys Ed teacher was yet another champion of mine - and a broker into the system. Some years later on she would have us learn and support Italian lessons. And because of this she was a really strong connector - especially when it came to a question on Copernicus/Kopernik when we were studying the stars and astronomy.



Love La la la because it has the idea of preach speech in it and it has been so popular in so many countries.



Here is a quote that shows what I [and Beverley Eley] mean by PREACH SPEECH - it is also a good introduction to a book which showed me so much about biographical craft and graft - The book of David - it is also good for anyone who wants to know It's all right to be different:

[... earlier there was something about Democritus and the atom in that paragraph]Not only is his memory phenomenal, his wit is dry and clever. One day he walked into a conversation about homilies, proverbs and adages. After patting and kissing those close at hand [my emphasis], he walked away with the comment, 'Preach speech ... it's preach speech'.

By what yardstick do we measure someone like the eccentric, yet greatly gifted, David Helfgott? [says Eley on page 7 of The book of David in its 5th printing from 1997]

Eley and Helfgott [David and Gillian] are very good friends and her biographical practice is exemplary. Hoping the Gleniffer house where she and her husband John [who The book of David is dedicated to - for being someone who BELIEVES IN LOYALTY FRIENDSHIP AND JUSTICE - if books were tablets and stones - they would be carved in like that] is okay and the land too. That land is called the Promised Land and again Eley and David Helfgott are neighbours.



Had a great time watching Marianne and Leonard - words of love - so many people came by including in groups. Of course So long Marianne is a very important song. And Marianne was such a very generous and kind person. I think of Axel who is over 60 now and was only 6 months old when Leonard Cohen came into his Hydra life - in all my years I had never heard it pronounced like that so I could imitate it and reference it. Shows you how few of my resources are Greek. And the archivist really made the film, I do believe. I would sell the farm on it. Along with Broomfield of course who had a connection - intimate connection - with Ihlen from Oslo [and Paris and London and Hydra and one more place]



What did I want to talk about with the Naughty Little Sister and my experience?



When she was in a school choir one day; she and her friend Bad Harry la la la la'ed to the Christmas carols particularly Away in a manger which was the very first Christmas carol I connected with in 1985-86. Another early one was The first Noël - ten years later I connected so hard I named a character Noelle. She belongs to the gaggle of Gilberts - the five who were born on a student exchange. [and, yes, that is five at the same time in the same caul so to speak!]



And then I remember the Blubber singing lessons in Judy Blume - especially Miss Rochelle - great name for a musical person. My 1999 self thought this too - one of the times she and my 1994 self were in agreement [the former self was the one who read the book for the first time - and she was up for it six months later when she was sick and the world didn't make sense - she also enjoyed Paul Jennings' Quirky Tales where Linda thought salt was sugar and sugar was salt and No was yes]. So there was a young girl called Rochelle who absolutely loved music and was a flower girl. And then there was breathing and melody and harmony which I confess I really did not get until Grizel Cochrane had lost her harmony book in The head girl of the Chalet School which came with me in a Lion King bag along with a manuscript - that one was about a student called Tadeusz Meliński who studied temporarily at the London Progressive College. I got quite far in the writing of Educating Tadeusz laying and paving the ground [like crazy paving in my last].



Yours truly has also discovered Music from Ceefax which is the British Broadcasting Corporation teletext service. Especially looking for ocean music and ship music and sea shanties. After I watched Little Women in the Greta Gerwig mode and went to a park and a public house, I found many of them. It was when I became sick of Scouting and Guiding songs around the campfire and the Jamboree setting that I wanted to find some sea songs.

Many of you who have read Blubber will remember that Jill Brenner was quite the stamp collector - and she knew how to bargain and broker and write good letters. What she was not so good at doing was keeping her nails tidy and unbitten. Now nerves will do that to any person - and she was carrying around the sort of nervery which would make an animal pace and scratch and do various other displacement behaviours.

People often feel misplaced and displaced too. Especially when they feel their love is running out of time and that their words mean nothing.

Hope your lives feel Funktastic this week and for the Epiphany tomorrow. Imagine that - the first Monday of 2020!

Finally deck the halls with boughs of holly fa la la la la.

La la la  was released at the Jingle Bell Ball of 2013 and subsequently charted in many nations. And it had so many remixes - I chose the Sam Smith one because it had lots of resonance and was best-known perhaps ...

In Australia it peaked at number five; hit number one in the Commonwealth of Independent States chart as it did in the Czech Republic; number two in Denmark and Germany; number six in France; and it's probably time to point out the Hungarian charts and their genre diversity as well as media diversity [stream and radio]. A lot of central European nations [Poland too] have their dance charts and in this La la la came out 9th in Poland and 6th in Hungary. Seems the Romanians loved it and put it on number 1. Top 15 in Venezuela - 14th actually - awesome!

The US charts were much more mixed. Somehow the Brits bought more than a million copies. At least two charts showed top 20 and one was actually 10th. The Rhythmic seems open for debate.

And when hearts can't stop it they find a way to block it.

Trying to block this earworm [though I don't want to so it will stay] of La La Land which I think many of my #songlyricsunday companions and compeers have chosen.

 

#autistichistorymonth "A different sort of magic which is in everyone"

Those who don't know magic will never find it - Roald Dahl. Or he said something closely similar.

Right now I am watching The princess and the goblin which was a product of a certain time.

What I remember is more important than what I forget said a woman who has limbic encephalitis. Allergic reactions and inflammations are two causes of this.

And then someone else said - Magic is easy for me. I can always find it. Or was it Enid Blyton about happiness rather than magic? Her books are often full of both, especially the first ones I read, like about Mr Pinkwhistle who is an activist and interventionist of the fairy/pixie/brownie world she often moves in when she writes her fantasies for younger children.

I spent a lot of time around Tom Shakespeare and his profiles, and also listening to Sabrina from the mid-1980s - three albums of hers this weekend.

Ah - goblins! They are such creatures. A lot of you might know them from Gringotts Bank. I had a thought about this when I was reading Independence Chick about house-elves and the way they align with disability rights and cross-disability work.

What disability advocates can learn from house-elves from Independence Chick - in short, lots!

Also I was able to set up the subtitles for Princess and the Goblin in a special way.

Apparently Public Broadcasting Service picks up the subtitles from the iPad - the closed captions. I called the format Dupont Humanite and used blue, red and yellow and shadows.

YouTube captions are slightly different. For instance; there are shadows and boxes which can be used to best advantage - reminding me of when I would work with Microsoft Word versions 5 and 5.1 in the mid-1990s. Before that I would use TeachText and/or ClarisWorks.

And now of course there is Pages which has a long-overdue update. I mainly use it to convert documents from before like Preview does and to make iBooks. And it would be good for brochures and business cards also.

I started off with the text. You can make it serif or sans-serif [and monotype/proportional - sort of the difference between Monaco; Geneva; New York; Palatino]. And then there are boxes and backgrounds which may or may not be good for the eyes.

Some people like high contrasts like yellow and blue or pink and red.

Red and pink and green should never be seen unless with a neutral colour like beige - I'm so glad subtitles and closed captions aren't beige! - or grey - shades of grey work well because they quiet and calm the eyes. They focus the mind also.

Or you may want to make your titles goblin-like or Irenie-like or grandmother-like.

The biggest problem I have had with titles is storyboarding and timing.

Some are based on audio description effects.

I first started seriously investigating these Internet effects 18 months ago when I was corresponding with the author of Disability Diaries and their cohort.

I still think subtitles are magic and I was first able to access a television with them - which had multimedia capacities I cherished for producing and consuming - in 2008. The Global Financial Crisis was good for something after all!

A few days ago I watched a show about the Cleveland Browns and their season-winning sweeping ways in 1995 and 1996. It was Football lives or that series.

There were not even capital letters like on US news shows of that calibre.

And when al-Jazeera says - This show is not captioned. I know that the YouTube and Vimeo videos from that conglomerate often are and there are transcripts, for more of life's good things such as the Press Clubs and Foreign Correspondence Clubs.

Thank you Joseph T. Graham for your copy of The Princess and the Goblin.

I still have not tried YouTube Red.

The goblins look something like the bat Bartok in Anastasia from the Don Bluth group.

And I am thinking of the time I learnt the truth about Jansen - it was made by a Hungarian in the style of a Dutch type foundry.

It is an easy font to read in, easier than Joanna which is a Penguin font.

And The monthly will be a whole different font altogether. It was designed by a Swiss group.

Dyslexie is a font I read in sometimes.

The beauty of the lilies I have just completed. A few years ago I was exploring The People's Temple and Jim Jones and Geoffrey Falk [perhaps 2013]. I remember the tuna cans were very hard to open that day, even with the grandparents' magnet opener which had been bought.

"Don't keep calling me princess - I'm human you know," says Irenie. [and so is Curdie!]

"I call it grandmother's thread".

"How did I find you now?"

They simplified this story a lot so it's about being lost and getting into trouble. Which is probably not the way George McDonald would have it. It's more like a Charles Kingsley adaptation or even Matthew Arnold.

And there was a good Sp!ked article about Matthew Arnold.

An example of an audio description effect would be almost poetic - even though you're not supposed to interpret them that way. If you had an individual person who likes poetry.

And there are endless automatic translations everything from Vietnamese to Haitian to Amharic. So I put it into Hmong for fun.

Curdie is very funny. I think there is another book that McDonald wrote which focuses on him and his adventures.

Green Knowe was written by Lucy Boston - a mid-century modern who puts us deep back into the past. And like this text, the grandmother is invisible.

And Curdie is finding it very hard to believe - to the extent of Friends don't lie to each other. I wonder if the Duffer Brothers had Eleven watch this? All the TV she seems to watch would be in sitcoms and soapies.

And there was a movie talk website which talked about The Lost Sister. I am thinking of what I saw about glow up which is like growing up though it has all these eighties and nineties connotations. This century it seems to be a very LGBTQIA thing and there was a big coming out.

"You'll find your own magic if you follow the thread", so Irenie finds her own thread and thinks for herself. Or Turnip the cat helps her.

I am going to think of Roald Dahl's very last book - Minpins - which is being released in a new generation so it will be editioned. And probably seditioned if I know the children and adolescents of the 21st century.

I remember Jon Scieszka's Politically correct fairy tales which were told from the perspective of the Wolf who was sufficiently Big and Bad to get people's attention. And my own first exposure would have been Rosen's Fairy tales and nursery crimes which is the second book ever I bought at a stall.

The first one was Aliki's How a book is made. And, yes, that probably did seal my fate and solidified my faith. I love the little kitten who has a mother who works in the publishing industry and the inside view we get. They make a sixteen-pager called Spring.

How a book is made with Amazon and Aliki - comes with Feelings and Manners for the 3 for 2